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Josh Kun on Narcocorridos in The New York Times

Tucans.jpgDirector of the Popular Music Project Josh Kun offers a fascinating, unsettling update in this NYT article on narcocorridos -- the hugely popular Mexican song form that celebrates drug trafficking and its brutal violence -- and the singers and bands who make a lucrative living from them.

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